[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2319 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2319

  To improve the national instant criminal background check system in 
  order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting 
                      criminal background checks.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2019

 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Diaz-Balart, 
 Mr. Woodall, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Moolenaar, Mrs. Lesko, Mr. Stewart, Mr. 
Yoho, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Gonzalez 
of Texas, and Ms. Torres Small of New Mexico) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To improve the national instant criminal background check system in 
  order to search the National Data Exchange database when conducting 
                      criminal background checks.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``21st Century NICS Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT THE NICS SYSTEM SEARCH THE NATIONAL DATA 
              EXCHANGE DATABASE IN CONDUCTING BACKGROUND CHECKS.

    Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 
U.S.C. 40901(e)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(L) Search of national data exchange database.--
                The system established under this section may search 
                the database of the National Data Exchange in 
                conducting a background check under this section.''.
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